October 15 – A second candidate from Tunisia has potentially emerged to challenge for the presidency of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
Tunisian FA president Dr Wadie Jary (pictured) has said he will stand in the CAF presidential election next year. He already serves at FIFA as a member of the Standing Committee of FIFA Member Associations.
Jary, a former player, will likely get the Tunisian nomination ahead of Tarek Bouchamaoui (a member of the FIFA Council) who said he would run for the CAF presidency earlier this month.
A member nation can only nominate one person from their country for election. A candidate must be supported by three member nations to be eligible to run. Bouchamaoui could still contest the election even if he wasn’t nominated by Tunisia but had the support of three other MAs.
Current president Ahmad from Madagascar, whose tenure almost from day one has been plagued by multiple allegations of corruption, financial impropriety, bullying and sexual harassment, has not indicated whether he will run again or not.
For most observers it is a surprise he is still in position with the catalogue of complaints against him. FIFA Ethics are understood to have opened an investigation but information as regards its progress has been released.
Such was the disarray within CAF that its executive committee requested FIFA assistance with a financial audit of its activities. FIFA responded by going a big step further by controversially parachuting its general secretary Fatma Samoura into the confederation as general delegate for Africa to run the region.
After six months Samoura was voted out by the executive committee – many of whom disputed the validity of her appointment in the first instance. Ahmad still remains in position at the head of the cash-strapped confederation.
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